2019 Proseminar: Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics
TU Dresden | Sommersemester 2019
2019 Proseminar: Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics
Proseminar
Tuesday, 3. DS. (11:10 - 12:40), SE2/201/H
Organizer
Steffen Turkat (steffen.turkat@tu-dresden.de)
Information
- The language of this Proseminar is English.
- During the first seminar on 2 April 2019 the general procedure, as well as some important presentation skills will be discussed.
How to participate/apply?
- Please contact the organizer via email as soon as possible and indicate three preferred topics from the list below.
- Alternatively simply show up in the first seminar and pick one of the remaining topics.
- The list of presentations with associated students will be updated frequently on this page.
- If you still want to register write an email to the organizer. There are still open slots in the schedule below.
About the presentation
- Preparatory meetings: 2 meetings for each talk, further details by email
- Every talk will last 30 minutes
- All necessary materials will be provided after all topics are distributed
- Talks should be given with prepared slides in English (laptop, beamer and pointer will be provided)
Schedule:
- 16.04.2019
Exploring the interior of the sun
The Borexino experiment - 30.04.2019
Visiting the particle zoo
The Standard Model of particle physics - 07.05.2019
Collisions on a micro-scale
Interactions between particles and matter - 14.05.2019
Screening the human body
Radiation detection techniques in medical diagnostics - 21.05.2019
Hunting the rarest nuclear processes
Experiments investigating the double beta decay - 28.05.2019
Radionuclide therapy in cancer treatment
Incorporating radioactive substances to irradiate tumor tissue - 04.06.2019
available - 18.06.2019
available - 25.06.2019
available - 02.07.2019
available - 09.07.2019
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Further available topics:
- Nuclear Astrophysics Underground
The world's underground accelerator facilities for nuclear reaction experiments
- Radioactive ion beam facilities
Basic concepts of rare isotope beam production and where to find them
- The Evolution of the Elements
What is experimentally known about nuclear processes creating chemical elements
- Space based gamma-observatories
How can we track nuclide signatures from supernova remnants
- Radiation therapy in cancer treatment
Using ion beam facilities to precisely irradiate tumor tissue
- The age of the Earth, the Galaxy and the entire Universe
Using alpha spectroscopy for (Cosmo)chronometry
- The most common decay mode
The advantages of Beta-Spectrometry
- Messengers of the nucleus
Measuring the nuclear structure with Gamma-Spectrometry
- The solar neutrino problem
Solar neutrinos and their oscillations
- Supernova explosion nearby
How Supernova 1987A started the multi-messenger era
- How much does a neutrino weight?
The KATRIN experiment, the worlds most sensitive beta spectrometer
- Neutron stars
Nuclear densities on stellar scales
- Illustrating Quantum Field Theory
Feynman-Diagrams and their advantages
- Predicting the rarest nuclear processes
The theory of the double beta decay
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